Polls: President is your in-law, Patience Jonathan tells Anambra

First Lady Patience Goodluck yesterday pleaded with the people of Anambra State to vote for her husband in next month’s presidential election because of his status as their in-law.

Mrs. Jonathan, who was on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team to the state, told PDP supporters at a rally in Onitsha that her spouse deserves their support if not for nothing else.

She described the PDP as a moving train and urged those still in doubt to come on board.

The president himself said that his administration had released N10billion for the take off of the 2nd Niger Bridge, N1.5billion of which was paid as compensation to those whose properties were demolished to make way for the N130billion project.

The president who had earlier inspected the level of work on the bridge, which links Onitsha with Asaba, Delta State said: “I discovered that work is really in progress as the access road that will lead to the bridge that is about 3km has been graded just to make sure that there is access to the site.

“I spoke with the management of Julius Berger and they assured me that the project will be completed within 40 months.”

He described the bridge as critical to his administration.

Also addressing the rally, the Southeast coordinator of the PDP presidential campaign and former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, told the people that most of the projects he executed during his tenure were sponsored by the President through the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

National chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu, said PDP would remain grateful to the people of Anambra for their patience, commitment and dedication to the president.

The leader of the party in the state, Chief Chris Uba, said the party was not leaving any stone unturned in making victorious certain for the PDP in the next month’s general elections in the state.

However, a PDP leader in the state, Chief Okey Muo Aroh, told the president to warn Governor Willie Obiano over his threat to unleash security operatives on PDP members who are campaigning for election but whose names are not listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as contestants.

The president later paid a courtesy visit to the Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe at his Ime-Obi palace during which the traditional ruler urged him to reconcile Governor Obiano and his predecessor, Obi.

The duo had fallen out soon after Obiano’s assumption of office and Obi’s defection from APGA to PDP.

Speaking, Governor Obiano said the entire Anambra State irrespective of political affiliations had decided to support President Jonathan for a second term in office as the state under his administration has witnessed great re-birth and shall support the President.

Igwe Achebe thanked President Jonathan for his vision and transformation agenda.

He said: “We want to remind you of what you said when you visited Ndi Igwe in 2011.You said that you are PDP and PDP is you.

“You also said that you are APGA and APGA is you and we want to stand by that by making sure that there is a level playing field for all the parties in the coming elections especially as the people of the state bury their different political parties to support you.”

The second Niger bridge may end up not built as only the sum of N10billion was made available to the project of the 130 billion required. The is less than 8% of the required sum. Ndigbo shine your eye o.

Patience too has become master in telling lies, how come GEJ is in law to Anambrarians? Hope the people are not deceived.?
More so is that a reason to vote for an incumbent or based on performance?
My in law doesn’t deserve my support if he can’t make life better for me so long as he has the opportunity.

G EJ what happened to the sea port you commissioned since 2012, why must you hoodwink ndi anambra and by extension ndigbo, I ve not seen any activity there, I stand to be corrected, why must you lie, our elites are our curse, ndi fomfoju akpa, you ve collected our commonwealth and shared, people know better now,GEJ, how can you promise us a bridge since 6 years ago, and very little has been done since then, this gimmick with not work now.i want my people to know that even if they finish the bridge, ndi igbo yet unborn will be paying toll each time they pass through, what an injustice and my people kept quite, are we outcasts , NO GOD FORBID,

Ugo, my God will bless you. Ndi IgBo wants to be fooled the 2nd time. The bridge he promised us with his predecessor during 2007 campaign. Now 8 years is gone without any meaningful thing happening in the site. Because most of ndi IgBo around him are just sycophants and cowards they found it disrespectful to say the truth. SHAME! Today he is no more our brother but our in law. Something that our brother couldn’t do in 8 years , do we expect our in law to do it in 4 years ? Am a full fledged Anambra man with exception YOU CAN NEVER FOOL ME TWICE! Agbacha oso anyI aguo miles

I, m surprised Obi is part of this deceit. In 2011 eleven , one the conditions he gave the president in other to gain support of the Anambrarians was to build the second niger bridge. It, s sad that four years after the same bridge is still a subject of campaign and so far according to Mr President only about 5% of the estimated cost of N360b has been paid and these shameless politicians are busy dissipating their energies over nothing by persuading the good people of ndi Anambra to cast their votes for a colossal failure. Give Jonathan and pdp government the next decade , they would never build the second niger bridge, the had writing is alread there. Any body who thinks otherwise is rather a victim of hallucination. If Ndi Anambra could forget so easily the atrocious pdp government in Anambra state under Chinwoke Mbadinuju, then there’s something wrong with our memory as a people. For me and well meaning people of the state that regime remains the worst that could bequeath any state , , therefore can not be repeated in any guise or form.

You see how deception works.
(1) Pdp cannot run the account of the international airport because it is a lie
(2) They cannot run on the account of Onitsha sea port because it is a lie
(3) They don’t even mention the national conference outcome which the president promised to execute before the election of 2015, you know why? That’s right, because, it is a lie
(4) The second Niger bridge was promised during the last election, the president is again promising the same thing. You know the difference, he will not come to beg for our votes ever after serving this term if he makes if he wins.
Now, having failed to run on his record of performance, he is telling Ndigbo to vote for him because he is our brother Inlaw.
Did you notice how stupid Peter sounded when he gave the credit for all his performance as the governor of Anambra to Mr Jona. Now I know how empty Peter Obi really is.